Good point Joe about who does and doesn't show up at the statehouse. But, in the past when things got tough, full well knowing that the involved numbers were extremely minimal, it was the probably more so those who don't or didn't have significant financial resources that tried to help. With 50 percent of the harvest being taken by the combination of landowners, youth, lifetime and military it leaves you to wonder how many deer the landowner and lifetime guys are shooting per guy. The landowners still appear to be buying licensed since 14 percent of the harvest was taken by landowners and military that didn't buy a license, if I read that stuff right. The issue of the future is how the 40 and under guys respond to these changes and the use of their income. The DNR needs to stratify the numbers by age group and average harvest by age group. That's really the issue looking 10 years plus.


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